Beloi

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Beloi
Coast near Beloi.
The Suco Beloi forms the center of the island of Atauro. The place Beloi is on the east coast of the Sucos (borders from before 2015).
Data
surface 54.60 km²
population 1,678  (2015)
Chefe de Suco Alberto Soares
(election 2009)
Aldeias Population  (2015)
Adara 452
Maquer 545
Usubemaço 681
Beloi (East Timor)
Beloi
Beloi
Coordinates: 8 ° 13 ′  S , 125 ° 36 ′  E

Beloi is an East Timorese place and Suco in the administrative office of Atauro ( municipality of Dili ).

The place

Beloi with the Mano Côco in the background (east coast).

The place Beloi is located on the east coast of Sucos. The place is at an altitude of 0  m . There is a small harbor, a helipad for emergencies and a primary school, the Escola Primaria Ossu Bemasu . It is located in the Usubemaço district of the same name ( Usubemasu , Ossu Bemasu ), in the south of Beloi.

Once a week, a ferry from the state capital of Dili reaches Beloi after a three-hour journey. A small market is held at the port when the ferry arrives and departs.

The Suco

Beloi
places position height
Adara 8 ° 12 ′  S , 125 ° 34 ′  E 236  m
Atecru 8 ° 13 ′  S , 125 ° 32 ′  E 35  m
Beloi 8 ° 13 ′  S , 125 ° 36 ′  E 0  m
Maquer 8 ° 15 ′  S , 125 ° 31 ′  E ?
Eucalyptus alba trees on the way from Beloi to Adara.
Center in Beloi
Main street in Beloi
Market at the ferry terminal

1678 inhabitants live in Beloi (2015), of which 829 are men and 849 women. The population density is 30.7 inhabitants / km². There are 325 households in the Suco. In Suco, over 50% of the inhabitants speak the dialect Rahesuk , which belongs to the national language Wetar ( also Atauru or Adabe ). Over 37% speak the Wetar dialect Raklungu and over 4 % speak the dialect Resuk . Over 6% speak the official language Tetum Prasa and a small minority Tetum Terik as their mother tongue . Unusual for the mostly Catholic East Timor are the mostly Protestant residents, here in northern Atauro. They were evangelized from the neighboring island of Alor by Dutch Calvinists in the 20th century.

The Suco forms the northern center of the island. To the north is the Suco Biqueli , to the south the Sucos Macadade , Maquili and Vila Maumeta . The west coast is on the Strait of Ombai , the east coast on the Strait of Wetar . The westernmost point of Sucos is Cape Ponta Tutolo . Before the 2015 territorial reform, Beloi had an area of ​​62.49 km². Now there are 54.60 km². In the north, areas were given to Biqueli, including Cape Ponta Mano Tala and the town of Arlo on the west coast. The border to the neighboring sucos in the south was also redrawn.

An asphalt road connects Beloi on the east coast with Mau-Meta in the south and Biqueli in the north. In the north on the west coast is the village of Adara . The village of Atecru ( Atekru ) is located near the Ponta Tutolo and the village of Maquer ( Maker ) is also on the west coast, on the border with Suco Macadade . There is a medical station in Adara, Atecru and Maquer have primary schools. A landing stage enables the ferry from Dili to land here. She drives this route every Saturday and takes two and a half hours to get there one way. The Beloi Beach Hotel offers tourists overnight accommodation.

The landscape around the town of Beloi is characterized by eucalyptus trees ( Eucalyptus alba ), but there are more and more palm trees in the lowlands. At Adara the beach is bordered by a reef. After a narrow coastal plain, the land rises in stages. The land here is covered by tropical dry forest. It looks similar with Atecru. Here, too, there is a reef off the coast, after the narrow coastal savannah the dry forest follows on the higher elevations.

In the Suco there are the three Aldeias Adara , Maquer and Usubemaço .

In Adara live the Wawata Topu ( German  divers ), women who hunt fish underwater with harpoons and swimming goggles.

history

Rock carvings in a cave near Atecru have been dated to an age of around 8,000 years, and archaeologists under the direction of the French Jean-Christophe Galipaud even estimated the traces of settlement there to be 18,000 years old.

In 1999, the remote location of Atauros also protected the residents from the pro-Indonesian militias that devastated the rest of East Timor during the Indonesian Operation Donner . The local Indonesian army commander threatened to kill five pro-independence activists and burn down houses, but Victor Manuel Alves , a former Portuguese army officer and independence activist, paid a 90 million rupee bribe to prevent this. Alves also received three G3 rifles for this . On September 20, the last Indonesian soldiers withdrew from Atauro without using force. Until the arrival of the INTERFET troops , however, there was a power vacuum in which pro-Indonesian groups and independence advocates faced each other. On September 23, a meeting was held on Beloi Beach, attended by representatives of the churches, the East Timorese resistance, the youth organization, the council of elders and the new head of Beloi. Alves also took part and called for reconciliation between the groups. In response to rumors that some people were planning to burn down the home of former Beloi boss and Indonesian collaborator Antonio Miguel Pacheco, Alves threatened to shoot anyone who planned violence. Otherwise he spoke in a conciliatory manner and his speech was well received and apparently convinced most of the audience. The meeting was almost over when Pacheco arrived. Pachero now accused Alves that he was behind the plans to burn his house down. Alves now picked up one of the rifles that he had brought to the meeting. Pacheco shouted that if Alves was a man he should shoot him. Alves got enraged and shot twice in the air. Pacheco kept screaming and turning as if to leave. Then a third shot hit him in the head and killed him. There are different details about the circumstances. If witnesses initially stated that Alves had shot Pachero, they declared at the 2004 trial that they either did not see the shot themselves or that Alves turned the rifle on his shoulder and a shot was then released that accidentally hit Pachero.

Alves remained in custody from December 2000 to May 2001. The trial in the Dili District Court's Special Panels for Serious Crimes SPSC began in May 2004. The charges were murder. The verdict is manslaughter. Due to the circumstances, Alves was only obliged to pay compensation to the victim's family and was sentenced to one year imprisonment, which was suspended to two years probation. The Court of Appeals increased the sentence to two years in prison in 2005. Alves was taken into custody, but President Xanana Gusmão pardoned Alves after a month with presidential decree 16/2005. The court case is an example of criticism. The witnesses were not protected from threats and the trial was not specially secured. Alves is considered an influential man who was appointed to the State Council in 2012 .

politics

In the elections of 2004/2005 was Alberto Soares elected Chefe de Suco and in 2009 re-elected.

Web links

Commons : Beloi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Oriental Bird Club: Colin R.Trainor and Thomas Soares: Birds of Atauro Island, Timor-Leste (East Timor)
  3. ↑ a b UNMIT: Timor-Leste District Atlas version 02, August 2008 ( Memento from December 3, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 448 kB)
  4. ↑ List of polling stations for the parliamentary elections in East Timor 2007 (PDF file; 118 kB)
  5. ↑ a b Timor-Leste GIS Portal ( Memento from June 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Trekking East Timor: Atauro Island
  7. ↑ Fallingrain.com: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in East Timor
  8. ↑ Results of the 2010 census for the Suco Beloi ( Tetum ; PDF; 8.1 MB)
  9. ↑ Direcção Nacional de Estatística: Population Distribution by Administrative Areas Volume 2 English ( Memento from January 5, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Census 2010; PDF; 22.6 MB)
  10. ↑ Ministry of State Administration and Territorial Management : Map of the Atauro Administration Office ( Memento of July 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 1, 2017.
  11. ↑ Jornal da Républica with the Diploma Ministerial n. 199/09 ( Memento of February 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese; PDF; 323 kB)
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  14. ^ District Court of Dili: The Deputy General Prosecutor for Serious Crimes v. Victor Manuel Alves , accessed July 30, 2019.
  15. ^ A b David Cohen: Indifference and Accountablitiy - The United Nations and the Politics of International Justive in East Timor , East West Center Special Reports Number 9, June 2006.
  16. ↑ International Crimes Data Base: The Deputy General Prosecutor for Serious Crimes v. Victor Manuel Alves , accessed July 30, 2019.
  17. ↑ Jornal da República: DECRETO PRESIDENTE 16/2005 , accessed on July 30, 2019.
  18. ↑ The Cambodia daily: Media-Shy Judge Assumes Mantle of Independence , March 3, 2011 , accessed July 30, 2019.
  19. ↑ Jornal da República: RESOLUÇÃO DO PARLAMENTO 15/2007 August 27, 2007 , accessed on July 26, 2019.
  20. ↑ RTP: Parlamento de Timor-Leste elege novos elementos para órgãos consultivos do PR , August 28, 2007 , accessed on July 26, 2019.
  21. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2004/2005 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  22. ↑ Secretariado Técnico de Administração Eleitoral STAE: Eleições para Liderança Comunitária 2009 - Resultados ( Memento of August 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

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